Monday, 10 February 2014

Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony

Derived from the Latin gluttire,
meaning to gulp down or swallow, gluttony (Latin, gula)
is the over-indulgence and over-consumption
of anything to the point of waste.

In Christianity, it is
considered a sin if the excessive desire for food causes it to be
withheld from the needy.
Because of these scripts, gluttony can be interpreted as
selfishness;
essentially placing concern with one's own interests above the
well-being or interests of others.Medieval
church leaders (e.g., Thomas
Aquinas) took a more expansive view of gluttony, arguing that it could also include an obsessive anticipation of
meals, and the constant eating of delicacies and excessively costly
foods.
Aquinas went so far as to prepare a list of six ways to commit
gluttony, comprising:

Praepropere – eating too
soon

Laute – eating too
expensively

Nimis – eating too much

Ardenter – eating too
eagerly

Studiose – eating too
daintily

Forente – eating wildly

In Dante's Inferno the "great worm" Cerberus
guards the gluttons,
forced to lie in a vile slush produced by ceaseless foul, icy rain
(Virgil obtains safe passage past the monster by filling its three
mouths with mud). In her notes on this circle, Dorothy
L. Sayers writes that "the surrender to sin which began with
mutual indulgence leads by an imperceptible degradation to solitary
self-indulgence." The gluttons lie here sightless and heedless of their neighbors,
symbolizing the cold, selfish, and empty sensuality of their lives.

The demon associated with gluttony is Beelzebub

Used: Victorian Disco Sailor Venus on the inner corner,
Victorian Disco Arda in the crease, Shiro Cosmetics Wheeeeeee on the outer half of lid and brows, Geek Chic Bigger on the Inside for liner, Fyrinnae Scarlet Macaw as the cherries with Victorian Disco The Fett for stems. White is rimmel liner, glitter is collection glam crystals in funk.

This shopuld have been published on the 29th January! Blogger glitched and saved it in drafts instead of scheduled it, sorry guys!

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